Batting Highest Career Batting Average IN England

Highest averages for England vs India in Tests IN England

Highest averages

Player	Span	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s
D Lloyd (ENG)	1974-1974	2	2	1	260	214*	260.00	517	50.29	1	-	-	20	0
SM Patil (IND)	1982-1982	2	2	1	191	129*	191.00	298	64.09	1	1	-	27	2
RA Smith (ENG)	1990-1990	3	6	4	361	121*	180.50	617	58.50	2	2	-	39	0
DR Jardine (ENG)	1932-1932	1	2	1	164	85*	164.00	-	-	-	2	-	-	0
C White (ENG)	2002-2002	2	3	2	153	94*	153.00	198	77.27	-	2	-	17	2
ME Trescothick (ENG)	2002-2002	1	2	1	115	58*	115.00	174	66.09	-	2	-	18	0
TS Worthington (ENG)	1936-1936	2	2	-	215	128	107.50	-	-	1	1	-	19+	0
MH Denness (ENG)	1974-1974	3	4	1	289	118	96.33	599	48.24	2	-	-	27	0
R Subba Row (ENG)	1959-1959	1	1	-	94	94	94.00	-	-	-	1	-	11	0
G Miller (ENG)	1979-1982	4	4	1	250	98	83.33	573	43.63	-	3	-	25	0
IT Botham (ENG)	1979-1982	7	8	-	647	208	80.87	812	79.67	3	1	1	67	14
KP Pietersen (ENG)	2007-2011	7	12	1	878	202*	79.81	1406	62.44	4	2	-	114	3
AW Greig (ENG)	1974-1974	3	2	-	159	106	79.50	288	55.20	1	1	-	10	1
WR Hammond (ENG)	1932-1946	6	9	2	555	217	79.28	-	-	2	1	-	21+	1
TT Bresnan (ENG)	2011-2011	3	3	1	154	90	77.00	216	71.29	-	2	-	25	1
J Hardstaff (ENG)	1936-1946	4	5	1	306	205*	76.50	-	-	1	1	1	31+	0
Rev.DS Sheppard (ENG)	1952-1952	2	2	-	153	119	76.50	-	-	1	-	-	22	0
MP Vaughan (ENG)	2002-2007	7	13	1	910	197	75.83	1525	59.67	4	2	1	122	0
CJ Barnett (ENG)	1936-1936	1	2	1	75	43	75.00	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
MW Gatting (ENG)	1986-1986	3	6	2	293	183*	73.25	569	51.49	1	-	1	34	2
JE Root (ENG)	2014-2025	20	34	5	2111	180*	72.79	3604	58.57	10	6	1	236	3
H Verity (ENG)	1936-1936	3	3	2	72	66*	72.00	-	-	-	1	-	0+	0
GS Ballance (ENG)	2014-2014	5	7	-	503	156	71.85	969	51.90	2	2	-	74	1
JB Statham (ENG)	1959-1959	3	3	2	70	38	70.00	-	-	-	-	-	2+	0
MJK Smith (ENG)	1959-1959	2	3	-	207	100	69.00	-	-	1	1	-	14+	0
LE Plunkett (ENG)	2014-2014	2	3	2	69	55*	69.00	119	57.98	-	1	-	9	0
R Dravid (IND)	1996-2011	13	23	3	1376	217	68.80	3081	44.66	6	4	-	186	0
GA Gooch (ENG)	1979-1990	10	17	-	1134	333	66.70	2056	55.15	4	4	1	133	10
SC Ganguly (IND)	1996-2007	9	15	1	915	136	65.35	1699	53.85	3	5	1	124	7
Shubman Gill (IND)	2022-2025	6	12	-	775	269	64.58	1177	65.84	4	-	-	90	12
G Boycott (ENG)	1967-1979	8	12	1	707	246*	64.27	1647	42.92	3	-	-	71	1
MA Atherton (ENG)	1990-1996	6	11	1	641	160	64.10	1502	42.67	2	4	1	65	0
N Hussain (ENG)	1996-2002	7	11	1	633	155	63.30	1276	49.60	4	-	-	90	2
JL Smith (ENG)	2025-2025	5	9	2	434	184*	62.00	544	79.77	1	2	-	47	11
KF Barrington (ENG)	1959-1967	8	11	-	681	97	61.90	706+	45.89	-	7	-	63+	8
G Pullar (ENG)	1959-1959	3	4	-	242	131	60.50	-	-	1	1	-	0+	0
L Hutton (ENG)	1946-1952	7	11	2	522	150	58.00	-	-	2	2	-	13+	0
MC Cowdrey (ENG)	1959-1959	5	7	1	344	160	57.33	-	-	1	2	-	15+	6
R Swetman (ENG)	1959-1959	3	4	2	114	65	57.00	-	-	-	1	-	10+	0
C Ramaswami (IND)	1936-1936	2	4	1	170	60	56.66	-	-	-	1	-	-	1
KWR Fletcher (ENG)	1971-1974	5	7	3	219	123*	54.75	476	46.00	1	1	1	21	0
SR Tendulkar (IND)	1990-2011	17	30	1	1575	193	54.31	2917	53.99	4	8	-	227	5
HC Brook (ENG)	2025-2025	5	9	-	481	158	53.44	591	81.38	2	2	1	56	7
AJ Stewart (ENG)	1996-2002	6	9	1	423	87	52.87	857	49.35	-	4	-	56	0
TG Evans (ENG)	1946-1959	7	6	-	315	104	52.50	73+	100.00	1	3	1	37+	1
IR Bell (ENG)	2007-2014	12	19	-	991	235	52.15	1500	66.06	3	3	2	132	7
DI Gower (ENG)	1979-1990	12	20	4	833	200*	52.06	1471	56.62	2	1	2	90	3
BM Duckett (ENG)	2025-2025	5	9	-	462	149	51.33	557	82.94	1	3	1	63	3
DCS Compton (ENG)	1946-1952	5	8	4	205	71*	51.25	1+	-	-	2	1	0+	0
MA Ealham (ENG)	1996-1996	1	1	-	51	51	51.00	120	42.50	-	1	-	3	0
RS Bopara (ENG)	2011-2011	2	2	1	51	44*	51.00	90	56.66	-	-	-	4	0
DL Amiss (ENG)	1967-1974	6	9	-	458	188	50.88	1094	41.86	1	2	1	58	0
DW Randall (ENG)	1979-1982	6	6	-	304	126	50.66	728	41.75	1	2	1	27	1
TW Graveney (ENG)	1952-1967	7	10	1	442	151	49.11	561+	44.74	1	3	-	34+	4
WGA Parkhouse (ENG)	1959-1959	2	3	-	144	78	48.00	-	-	-	1	-	-	0
DB Vengsarkar (IND)	1979-1990	13	23	3	960	157	48.00	2167	44.30	4	4	3	107	1
VM Merchant (IND)	1936-1946	6	11	-	527	128	47.90	-	-	2	2	2	21+	0
JP Crawley (ENG)	2002-2002	4	6	1	237	100*	47.40	450	52.66	1	1	-	27	0
Washington Sundar (IND)	2025-2025	4	8	2	284	101*	47.33	587	48.38	1	1	1	23	8
AJ Lamb (ENG)	1982-1990	8	15	1	636	139	45.42	1086	58.56	3	1	-	76	4
RR Pant (IND)	2018-2025	12	22	-	990	146	45.00	1345	73.60	4	5	1	110	28
RA Jadeja (IND)	2014-2025	15	29	5	1079	107*	44.95	2046	52.73	2	8	1	126	11
MAK Pataudi (IND)	1967-1967	3	6	-	269	148	44.83	733	36.69	1	1	1	32	2
RG Sharma (IND)	2014-2021	5	10	1	402	127	44.66	955	42.09	1	2	-	45	4
Dilawar Hussain (IND)	1936-1936	1	2	-	89	54	44.50	-	-	-	1	-	-	0
CJ Tavare (ENG)	1982-1982	3	5	1	178	75*	44.50	543	32.78	-	2	-	17	0
SB Bangar (IND)	2002-2002	2	2	-	89	68	44.50	320	27.81	-	1	-	13	0
AN Cook (ENG)	2007-2018	17	28	1	1196	294	44.29	2556	46.79	2	5	1	142	0
Yajurvindra Singh (IND)	1979-1979	1	2	1	44	43*	44.00	122	36.06	-	-	-	1	0
PJW Allott (ENG)	1982-1982	2	2	1	44	41*	44.00	63	69.84	-	-	-	2	1
SP Jones (ENG)	2002-2002	1	1	-	44	44	44.00	43	102.32	-	-	-	7	1
H Gimblett (ENG)	1936-1936	2	3	1	87	67*	43.50	-	-	-	1	-	-	0
M Leyland (ENG)	1936-1936	2	2	-	86	60	43.00	-	-	-	1	-	-	0
SW Sohoni (IND)	1946-1946	2	3	2	43	29*	43.00	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
AB Agarkar (IND)	2002-2002	4	6	1	210	109*	42.00	348	60.34	1	-	-	31	1
M Azharuddin (IND)	1986-1996	9	16	1	625	179	41.66	1023	61.09	2	2	1	83	1
P Willey (ENG)	1979-1979	1	2	-	83	52	41.50	175	47.42	-	1	-	12	0
VS Hazare (IND)	1946-1952	7	12	1	456	89	41.45	-	-	-	3	-	3+	1
AA Baig (IND)	1959-1959	2	4	-	165	112	41.25	-	-	1	-	-	3+	0
KS More (IND)	1986-1990	6	9	3	247	61*	41.16	577	42.80	-	1	-	29	0
SM Gavaskar (IND)	1971-1986	16	28	-	1152	221	41.14	2755	41.81	2	8	2	110	2
YBK Jaiswal (IND)	2025-2025	5	10	-	411	118	41.10	598	68.72	2	2	2	63	4
KL Rahul (IND)	2018-2025	14	28	-	1146	149	40.92	2251	50.91	4	3	2	152	3
BW Luckhurst (ENG)	1971-1971	3	6	-	244	101	40.66	586	41.63	1	1	-	29	1
SS Naik (IND)	1974-1974	1	2	-	81	77	40.50	184	44.02	-	1	-	9	0
PBH May (ENG)	1952-1959	7	10	1	356	106	39.55	-	-	1	2	-	27+	0
MH Mankad (IND)	1946-1952	6	10	-	395	184	39.50	-	-	1	2	1	1+	3
GR Viswanath (IND)	1971-1982	13	24	2	858	113	39.00	2187	39.23	1	9	1	85	0
A Mishra (IND)	2011-2011	2	4	-	153	84	38.25	259	59.07	-	1	-	21	1
JH Edrich (ENG)	1967-1974	8	12	1	418	100*	38.00	968	43.18	1	3	2	43	1
NF Williams (ENG)	1990-1990	1	1	-	38	38	38.00	52	73.07	-	-	-	6	0
FM Engineer (IND)	1967-1974	9	17	2	563	87	37.53	958	58.76	-	4	2	63	0
JM Bairstow (ENG)	2018-2022	10	18	1	634	114*	37.29	1023	61.97	2	3	4	87	4
MS Dhoni (IND)	2007-2014	12	23	2	778	92	37.04	1430	54.40	-	8	3	105	9
MJL Turnbull (ENG)	1936-1936	1	2	1	37	37*	37.00	-	-	-	-	1	-	0
RC Russell (ENG)	1990-1996	6	7	1	221	124	36.83	533	41.46	1	-	2	20	0
SMH Kirmani (IND)	1982-1982	3	4	1	110	58	36.66	275	40.00	-	1	-	13	0
AJ Strauss (ENG)	2007-2011	7	12	-	440	96	36.66	1080	40.74	-	3	-	62	0
JC Buttler (ENG)	2014-2021	11	17	-	621	106	36.52	991	62.66	1	4	3	83	7
C Washbrook (ENG)	1946-1946	3	5	1	146	52	36.50	-	-	-	1	-	-	0

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Records includes the following current or recent matches:

South Africa vs India at Guwahati, South Africa in India 2nd Test, Nov 22-26, 2025 [Test # 2609]

England vs Australia at Perth, The Ashes 1st Test, Nov 21-22, 2025 [Test # 2608]

South Africa vs India at Eden Gardens, South Africa in India 1st Test, Nov 14-16, 2025 [Test # 2606]